New Class - Acro Foundations

Acro Foundations is a new class suitable for both students wanting to go further in their acrobatic journey and fitness and also for serious students wanting a career path into performing Arts, Circus, Dance, Physical Theatre or other training institutions, NICA, École Nationale de Cirque Montreal, and others.

What: 1.5 hours of physical development in acrobatic arts Including:

When: Note: Class is on hold pending numbers - please contact us for interest via email

Where: The Circus Centre - 146 Carrington Street, O'Connor.

The synopsis of Acro Foundations - by Chris Mayhew.

By crafting a acrobatic practise with elements from a range of acrobatic disciplines from gymnastics, sports acro, circus, movement, dance, acro yoga, partner acro, trampoline sports and crossfit we are hoping to raise the acrobatic level and standard across the entire Western Australian and Australian acro communities.

- Why tumbling/movement practise in partner acro? - if you can tumble you can fall safe and land stronger, so you won't break, Your total body agility and spacial awareness will improve, helping everything from your balance, power to mobility.

- can you perform a back roll to handstand with straight arms/Fwr roll tuck/straddle up? - this directly relates to more advanced partner acro skills such as "cannon ball to handstand, hand to hand "inlocates", or dynamic corbetts/cascards etc.

- Very seldom will you see a advanced flyer with out a good level of tumbling and acro development. If you're a beginner - this training will put you miles ahead.

- A professional dancer does their daily floor bar, ballet bar then centre work before moving on to dazzling leaps and combinations. So too, acrobats need to work through a structure training discipline to maximise training efficiency.

Outline of program 90 mins

10 - 15mins

- Tumbling and movement, handstands, roll into tuck/straddle up, cartwheels, springs flips, somersaults and sequences and landings. designed to organically improve agility, mobility, dynamic power, balance for all acrobats.

10 - 15mins

- Flyer specific conditioning - specific handstand work, the tuck-up, Handstand- pressing, prep for one arms, flexibility, aerial awareness - tramp skills.

- Base specific condition - strength/balance drills, power, sandbag/kettlebell/lifts specific acro drills for basing.

30 min

- Partner work - spotting, L-basing, standing basing, adagio lifts, Hand to Hand, dynamic, tempo and balance.

30 min

- Group work - 3 highs, stacks, group basket/banquine, "Toss the Girl" - leading to acrobatic training in skills and development such as Russian Bar and Teeterboard and group casting and more.

Thinking of Circus Classes for your Daughter or Son? Here's what happens in our Term classes at

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In our 90 minute Circus Aerial Skill based classes young teens ages 11 years to 17 years develop strong athletic physicality in both (acrobatics) - handstand balance, contortion, tumbling and acro partner work as well as (Aerial work) - Aerial Silks, Rope, Lyra and Trapeze with a end result of combining these skills with artistry and musicality into very creative routines and performances. Our end of Term shows gives students an oppertunity to perform and showcases their talents to parents and friends and some of them continue further into our youth development Initiative which offers a high level of training and performance opportunities.

In our 90 minute Circus Fundamentals Class Children aged 8 years to 14 years we incorporate the 4 fundamentals of Circus skills which are Acrobatics, Aerial, Manipulation (juggling, flower sticks, hula hoops etc) and Balance into fun and challenging skill based progression leading to a greater level of physical skill, fitness, strength, flexibility, balance and agility together with developing their own creativity and performance ability,

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For Children aged 5 years to 7 years our Circus Fun Super Star Classes are tailor made for lots of engagement, active imaginations and developing bodies starting with games, tumbling, climbing swinging, handstands, cartwheels, acrobatics even trapeze and Aerials all aimed at building the strength, skills and the physical development in a non competitive fun program.

Our philosophy is, we want Children and our students to love coming to Circus! For the most part The feedback from parents is that their Children "can't wait till the next class!". If for some reason it doesn't suit your Child we offer a full refund for any unused term classes and if your Child is sick and can't attend, please let us know so we can arrange make up classes for the ones missed. Hope to see you soon!

Please visit us www.thecircuscentre.com.au

email: thecircuscentre@gmail.com

phone: 0413 029 789

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Circus Centre Students amaze! -Performing News!

Recently some of our older students recently performed at Melville High School Health week and assisted teaching a workshop for student there which were both well received.